Electric motor.



Patented lune I9, 1900.

H. 0. WHITE. ELECTRIC IIOTIJR.

(Application filed Oct. 18, 1899.)

2 Sheets-Sheet l.

(Ila Model.)

E E E E E N W W No. 651,909. Patented lune l9, I900.

H. 0. WHITE.

ELECTRIC MOTOR.

(Application filed. Oct. 18, 1899.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT @FFICE.

. HENRY O. WHITE, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

ELECTRIC MOTQR...

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 651,909, dated June 19, 1900. Application filed October 18,1899. Serial No. 734,016. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, HENRY 0. WHITE, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusettmhaveinvented certain newand useful Improvements in Electric Motors, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to electric motors; andit consists in devices for adapting such motors to driving isolated mechanism, and for convenience of illustration a sewing-machine is selected.

The market is now supplied with electric motors intended to drive a machine with a belt; butsuch an arrangement is cumbersome and unsatisfactory. Another device replaces the balance-wheel of the machine with one member of an electric motor; but this arrangement is less efficient than the first.

Knowing the calls of the trade I have endeavored to produce a device which without.

being unwieldy, on the one hand, or ineffectual, on the other, is self-contained, furnishes a support, and is able to start and control the speed of the machine under the usual conditions of use. To this end I furnish a base, to which the driven machine may be fastened by a screw and at one extremity of which is adjustably secured an electric motor. The shaft of the electric motor carries a bell-cent-cr to aline the motor with the driven machine, and a pronged clutch engages the balance-Wheel to furnish a driving connection The base contains a resistance to regulate the speed of the motor and a controlling-switch for the resistance, the blade of which may be, if desired, placed in any position and retained by a frictional device, or the blade is put under the control of a spring which tends to move the blade to the off position, the required speed being obtained by moving the blade against the spring by the fingers or through a cord attached to a treadle.

In somekinds of work it is useful to have the machine warm, and'some of the speeds of the motor or additional resistance in the base can be utilized for this purpose. On the other hand, if desired, the heat may be dissipated by suitable ventilation.

Labor-saving mechanism, as a sewingmachine, starts with some difiiculty because of the number of abrupt cams, eccentrics, and springs which retard the machine as it stops and usually leave it in the worst position for further motion. This has been an obstacle to the use of electric appliances, as there is danger of burning out the coils of a still motor heavily loaded it the current is applied suddenly Without using a much larger motor than required when in motion I have found it useful to loosely connect my motor to the clutch and fast-en a spring to the clutch and motor-shaft, so that when the driven inachine stops the spring will turn back the ar mature of the motor about one hundred and eighty degrees. The spring may be so proportioned that when the armature revolves a slight jar is given the clutch, as a pin in the armature-shaft comes in driving contact with the, termination of a slot in the clutch-sleeve, thus settingtlie machine in motion.

The motor may be wound for either director alternating currents. The illustration shows my winding for direct currents. I produce a bipolar field by connecting consecu tive poles each having a Winding, in one sense, and others having a winding in a reverse sense. The toothed armature is supplied with a Gramme winding and connected be tween the members of the field of opposite polarity.

The base and attached motor contain all that is required to drive and control a machine and in this form constitute an article of commerce, requiring of the purchaser no skilled labor to set up where used, as the-device is adjusted in the facto y for each special ma chine.

In the drawings, Figure l is an elevation of my electric motor in driving relation to a sewing-machine. Fig. 2 is an inverted plan of the base. Fig. 3 is a cross-section of the base on line Z Z and also showing the clutch; ing devices. Fig. 4 is an end elevation of the motor without the spider. Figs. 5 and 6 show details of the switch-friction. Fig. 7 shows details of clutch and armature connection. Fig. 8 is adetail of the clamp and switchspring. Fig. 9 is a diagram of circuits for direct-current motor.

The hollow casting 1 constitutes a bed for the driven machine, and themachine is fas- ICO tened thereto by a thumb-screw 2 inserted from beneath the table. At the extremity of thebed an electric motor 3 is secured, the

axial position of which may be adjusted by 5 screws 4 passing through slots in the bed.

sThe balance-wheel 5 of the machine receives between its spokes the prongs 6 of a clutch connected to the motor.

abell-center 7, adapted to receive the hub of IO the balance-wheel, thus insuring the adjustment of the machine and motor in line. The

clutch is loose on the motor-shaft, but secured fromdisplacement by a pin 8, fast in the shaft,

which forms a driving member for the same,

and the pin is limited in relative rotation'by a slot 9 in the sleeve of the clutch. A coilspring 10 is fastened to the clutch-disk and screwed to the pin 8 of the motor-shaft in such manner that when the machine stops the stress ofthe spring will cause the armature to turn back about half a revolution until the pin 8 touches the limiting-stop 31 at one extremity of the slot 9, thus providing play, so that the pin 8 may, when the armatu rc r z 5 is energized, strike the clutch-sleeve at the extremity 32 of the slot 9, which forms the complemental driving member, with suflicient force to start the machine. A sheet-metal cap 11 covers the parts.

3o A resistance 12 for'the motor is secured to blocks of fiber 13, fastenedto a metal frame,

the inner faces of which and the couvolutions of the resistance are insulated with asbestos.

ersed by a brush insulated and spring-supported upon the blade 19, which is frictionally restrained by the spring-clip 20 in contact with its center. a

It is often desirable to cause the blade, notwithstanding the friction of the spring-clip 20; to return to the position including all the resistance and breaking the circuit, of the motor, from which position it can only be in- 50. tentionally moved by the operator. For this purpose I pivot the blade to the shackle of a spring 21, having its extremity fastened to a tube 22, which tube incloses the spring and slides through or is restrained by a clamp 23,"

v attached to the under side of the bed. The

clamp is opened or closed by the thumb-screw 24. To allow the operator the use of both hands, the blade may be controlled bya cord 25, attached to a treadle. If the operator 6o wishes to have the spring 21 control the blade, the thumb-screw 23 is tightened;' but if it is This clutch carries "intended to have the clip 20 control the position of the blade the screw 23 is loosened.

The: circuit of the motor is readily understood by the diagram, in which the line may be connectedat 26, thence through the re sistance 12 and lower field-coils 27, the armature 28, and the upper field-coils 29 to line at 30. This circuit gives a powerful starting torque; but the field is so strong that the ro-- tation will not be excessive. The commutators ofsmall motors are usually soon destroyed by sparking. ing with this winding, and the motors are hence durable.

Having described my invention and means for carrying it into efiect, I claim and desire to secure .by Letters Patent of the United States- 1. In an electric driving mechanism, a bed and means for secu ring the machine thereto, an electric motor axially adjustable on the bed, combined with devices to clutch and aline the machine and motor, substantially as described.

2. In an electric motor, a frictionally-restrained controller-blade, a retracting-spring attached to the blade and havinga sliding connection with a clamp, combined with means to lock or release the clamp and sliding connection, substantially as described.

8. In an electric driving mechanism, a motor-shaft having a driving member, a driven shaft having a complemental driving memberand alimiting-stop, combined with means There is little spark-' for positioning the driving member of the mo.-. I

tor-shaft -in contact with the limiting-stop when at rest, so that, when the motor isgenergized, its driving member may strike, with a jar or slight shock, the complemental member of the driven shaft, substantially as described.

4; In an electric motor, a controller-blade having frictional devices adapted to normally locate it in any position, combined with a retracting device, having'means to connect or disconnect it at will, that tends to restore it to the off position, substantially as described.

HENRY 0. WHITE.

lVituesses:

J. E. WHITNEY, J. L. ADAMS.

5.- In an electric driving mechanism, a base 

